Nectarine and Veggie Salad

This salad has an interesting combination of fresh and delicious ingredients, the lime with the tomatoes and nectarines tastes amazing.

Nectarine and Veggie Salad
serves 4
prep 10 minutes

-3 nectarines sliced
-1/2 cup red onion
-2 cups cherry tomatoes (red/orange/yellow) sliced in half
-2-3 avocados sliced
-juice of 2 limes
-4 tablespoons hemp seeds
-sea salt (as desired)

-place the nectarines and avocado in a bowl, squeeze lime over and sprinkle the sea salt,then mix well.  Add the onion and tomatoes and serve.  Sprinkle with the hemp seeds.

I have been eating a lot of hemp seeds, they are high in Omega 3 and 6, protein, vitamins and minerals.  They taste great and have a nice crunch.

Roasted Pepper Guacamole

Some updates for my blog, I recently purchased a new camera and I am learning about higher quality pictures for this blog.

This guacamole was incredible.

Roasted Pepper Guacamole

-3 avocados
-3 peppers (red, yellow, orange) seeded and sliced
-olive oil
-1 large onion chopped
-1 large tomato chopped
-the juice (zest of 1 lime) of 2 limes
-1 tablespoon chili powder
-1/2 teaspoon cumin
-salt and pepper
-cilantro

-Preheat oven to 450F on a large cookie sheet place the peppers, tomatoes and onions and drizzle with olive oil, then coat with chili powder and cumin.  Place in oven turning occasionally.  Cook for about 15-20 minutes until the peppers are roasted, set aside.  In a large bowel mash up the avocados and squeeze in the juice and zest of 1 lime.  Add freshly ground pepper about 1/2 teaspoon and some salt (to taste) mix in the roasted peppers, onions and tomatoes.  Mix together and taste.  Top with cilantro

This was an incredible topping in tacos, or a dip.